School Consolidation was just as damaging as removal of school prayer. Neighborhood control was given up to the bureaucratic district commands, where monumental building are erected for the elitists that rule over you.
You are absolutely right, and I had that in mind when I composed my comment. It would be like allocating to the federal executive branch to appoint the governors of the states, rather than have them elected by those governed. An irresistible consolidation of power, thus answered only by a dictator as The Government. Which is what we have getting very close to the end result of yessing legislators and judges.